Security News
For years, Microsoft's baseline security policy has expired passwords after 60 days.
The proposal means that users at organizations with Group Policy would no longer be required to change their Windows passwords on a regular basis.
Microsoft's new cloud-hosted security information and event management service rolls out in a public preview.
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: One hundred percent of endpoint security tools eventually fail Endpoint security tools and agents fail, reliably and...
McAfee, Sophos and Avast are among the antivirus software suites impacted.
In this age of frequent security and data breaches, the statement “We take our customers’ privacy and security very seriously” has been heard from breached companies so often as to become a point...
A cybersecurity professional today demonstrated a long-known unpatched weakness in Microsoft's Azure cloud service by exploiting it to take control over Windows Live Tiles, one of the key features...
Between 1 January and 28 March this year hackers were able to access a “limited number” of consumer Outlook.com, Hotmail and MSN Mail email accounts, Microsoft has confirmed.
On Friday, an unknown number of customers of Microsoft’s webmail services (Outlook.com, Hotmail, MSN Mail) received a notice from the company telling them that attackers had access to their email...
Upgraded Warning Begs Questions About CompromiseMicrosoft says intruders targeting its email services had access to email content for a single-digit percentage of the overall affected accounts, a...